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William Tyndale

Who is William Tyndale?

William Tyndale holds the distinction of being the first man to ever print
the New Testament in the English language. Tyndale also went on
to first translate much of the Old Testament from the original
Hebrew into English,
but he was executed in 1536 for the "crime" of printing the
scriptures in English before he could personally complete the printing
of an entire Bible. His friends Myles Coverdale, and John "Thomas
Matthew" Rogers,
managed to evade arrest and publish entire Bibles in the English
language for the first time, and within one year of Tyndale's death.
These Bibles were primarily the work of William Tyndale.